Assessment Strategy The most important part of the intervention plan involves the development of an appropriate assessment strategy. Bateson's Cybernetics model is the most widely used of the strategies (Niolon, 1999)
In the book The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life, the author reflects, "Getting sick for a lifetime is seldom a single, discrete event. The symptoms are more likely to come on gradually, altering your life in subtle ways that can often be explained away as a temporary aberration" (Register, 1999)
In the long-term, there is an inevitable shift as patients and families accept the need to play a major role in the management of the disorder of daily life. The taking over of decision-making and control - however simple and partial - is a crucial factor in the process of adjustment and learning" (Newcombe, 2002)
This is achieved through providing a secure base/safe haven in which and from which each member is able to begin to form a coherent autobiographical narrative.' (Hughes, p
Kaslow notes that "this approach combines techniques from relational -- contextual, Bowenian, structural, and cognitive -- behavioral therapies, among others, and focuses on the individual within the family context." (Kaslow, p
A case history is presented which describes the therapeutic process and suggests possible future research to understand what constitutes the specific change process in Cognitive family therapy." (Waring & Russell, p
As a result, the capacity of teachers to work with poor children is shaped by teacher educators, school district administrators, educational researchers, and other experts." (Ng and Rury, 2006, p